Correlation-Based Watermarking Method for Image Authentication Applications

Abstract

We propose a correlation-based digital watermarking technique for robust image pattern authentication. We hide a phase-based signature of the image back into its Fourier magnitude spectrum in the embedding stage. The detector computes the Fourier transform of the watermarked image and extracts the embedded signature. Authentication performance is measured by a correlation test of the extracted signature and the signature computed from the watermarked image. The quality of the watermarked image is obtained from the peak signal-to-noise ratio metric. We also furnish simulation results to show the robustness of our approach to typical image processing as found in JPEG compression.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA464969

Entities

People

  • Farid Ahmed
  • Ira S. Moskowitz

Organizations

  • The Catholic University of America

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Authentication
  • Compression
  • Cryptography
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Digital Media
  • Discrete Fourier Transforms
  • Embedding
  • Engineering
  • Filters
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Domain
  • Information Processing
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Recognition
  • Simulations

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.